I recently (today) installed DSL-N onto an old dell latitude cpi and am proud to say that everything is working fine. i tried a couple of other disros, ubuntu, kubuntu and xubuntu, but i found that it only booted 1/3 times. now im happy with this distro and its features. it has everything ill need for the new year at school.

I am, however, having some trouble using the file browser and removable storage. i cant seem to find it in the file browser and im not sure how to access it in terminal. i tried a usb floppy drive, a 256 pen drive and the slot-in floppy drive and slot-in cdrom drives to look in them, but i cant, and im unsure how to.

im gonna need to transfer notes from my classes onto a desktop pc to organise them and stuff. the laptop doesent have internet access (well, until i get an adsl modem that uses ethernet as opposed to usb)

any help would be appreciated. if im in the wrong forum for this, please re-direct me.

first, I want to tell you that I only have experience with USB Flash drives. Also, since you didn't mention your degree of knowledge of linux i'll write these instructions as generally as possible. Then it will be able to help others better.

as far as I can tell, DSL-N does not recognize USB devices very well. I have had better luck with plain DSL.

However, I have been able to easily mount my usb drive by plugging it in before i turn on the computer. If you do that then you should be able to find it in the bottom left corner. Just click until you see sda1. And then click "unmounted" to mount it.

That may not necessarily work for you. So you can also go to the command line by right-clicking to go to fluxbox menu, then go to xshell. once there use these commands.

cd /mnt
mkdir sda1
mount /dev/sda1 sda1

your usb stick should now be mounted! Simply use "cd /mnt/sda1/", and then you should be able to see all your files.

As a side note, you could also set up a samba share or use ftp to transfer files between the computers. Sorry, but I wouldn't be a whole lot of help for you there.